Ok, you asked. The better term to describe the behavior of the oil is “incompressible”, rather than “hydraulic”. Fluids by nature are incompressible, therefore they do not have any give. Thanks for these videos. My knowledge of shocks has been greatly expanded.
Our KRX is now a week old. Got in 80 miles over the weekend! Looking forward to more videos from you guys! And I'm sure I will be seeking your help in the future!
Thanks for the lesson guy’s well done! Removed the walkers off my machine yesterday and taking them to a local shop for servicing today. Now I’ll be a little smarter and hopefully be able to ask and answer questions about my ride to help the guy’s tune my ride. Next go around I would like to service them myself. Thanks for the content.
My dad just purchased 2023 KRX, I will be keeping an eye on his ride height and most likely rather than spending the money on new springs, will have valves installed to check for proper nitrogen charge. And I like the upgraded pistons. Surprised Fox uses plastic pistons, but like you said anything to keep costs down I guess. As hot as that fluid gets I would think that plastic could soften and cause nitrogen and or fluid to pass by possibly causing the sag issues. Question, If you remove the plug in the reservoir, can a valve just be installed in its place, or do they need to be machined to fit?
Thats awesome! you need to machine the cap to install a Schrader valve it needs to be tapped to 1/8 NPT . It's all about costs when you agree to produce so many of something for a product no different than a chevy truck or ford car... Also, when you have your shocks serviced make sure there is no oil on the nitrogen side passed the IFP if there is oil on that side you need to fully disassemble the shocks fix the IFP seal and bleed all air out of the shock body when you put it back together. If this is not done correctly than just putting 200psi of nitro in wont fully correct the ride height and you can still have poor performance! Thank you for watching our videos
We just had an ES in the shop and fixed the nitrogen on it and kept the stock springs. Find the video here! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-o_pmL2jX158.htmlsi=8bhIWGkGtYpL9lAR
Great videos, much appreciated. A couple of questions for a 2023 KRX 1000 eS model with live valve. 1. If the nitrogen leaks out, does the live valve setting (soft, standard, firm) still have any functionality? 2. If you load the machine with accessory weight (winch, glass windshield, upper doors, back window, tool boxes, skid plate, rock sliders, bumpers, etc) and driver/passenger, would you still potentially need longer or stiffer tender springs or should stock tender springs compensate for that with more preload? I’m down about 2 inches after accessories and 250 miles riding. I’ll remove the shock and test for rebound without springs based on what I saw in your video. Fox says 100 psi for these shocks from the cal, I had with them today. They also claim they are unlikely to leak nitrogen, but I take that with a grain of salt coming from them.
1: if you loose nitrogen the settings still work as normal and meter the oil going into the resi 2: you will benefit from new springs likely with all the goodies and gear listed! I know fox says 100 but we put 150-200 in all the krx shocks weather it is live valve or not of course they say it doesn’t leak down but we all know that they do… You will not be able to check them without springs on them because they need voltage sent to them to be able to move them because they are live valve. It’s not the same as other shocks because when you unplug and remove them from the vehicle the valve in the bridge fully closes and you can’t budge them You can also feel this sensation when the key is off on the machine try pushing on the bumpers and it will be crazy stiff then turn the key on and push on them and try each setting to feel the difference
Can the es shocks be converted to manual? I wasn’t sure if the shocks on the Krx es are basically the same shock as the ones on the base model only with electronic control instead of a manual knob to adjust the settings. Thanks Great camera work Mel! Keep the shop videos coming… I enjoy tinkering as much if not more than riding lol
Unfortunately, no you cannot simply change the shocks over, it would require a complete new top hat and bridge which likely is not worth the cost. I would be willing to bet you can buy used shocks from a base model that was a write off for less than the cost of parts to change it over :)
